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Bernadine Solberg papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0579
Abstract
Engineering clerk, weaver, photographer, and traveler from Boone, Iowa.
Dates:
1855-1980; 1940-1980
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0434
Abstract
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Dates:
1920-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Best Ever Club (Percival, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0179
Abstract
A women's study club in Percival, Iowa that was founded in 1922.
Dates:
1929-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Church Women United (Johnson County, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0597
Abstract
Johnson County, Iowa chapter of Church Women United.
Dates:
1963-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Clara Steen Skott papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0216
Abstract
Free-lance writer, home economics teacher, and civic leader who wrote articles and diaries concerning life in Iowa, China, and Wisconsin.
Dates:
1899-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
De Jong Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0906
Abstract
Dutch immigrants who settled in Iowa in the 1910s, and four generations of their descendants.
Dates:
1852-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Dorothy Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0780
Abstract
Methodist Episcopal deaconess who later worked with the Mahaska County Historical Society to found the Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Dates:
1850-1994
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Edith Edmund Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0740
Abstract
Longstanding member of Fairfield, Iowa clubs including the Fancy Work Circle and the Good Cheer Society.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Edna Means papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0171
Abstract
Characterist and dramatic reader, and chatauqua performer from Tama, Iowa organized her own talent agency.
Arrangement A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Arrangement A gift copy of James W. Foley's, Some one like you (1915), presented to Means by Elias Day in 1936, has been removed to the printed works collection and cataloged separately.
Dates:
1908-1986
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Four Seasons Garden Club Records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0877
Abstract
This collection contains meeting minutes, annual reports, and scrapbooks of club activities.
Dates:
1970-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Friendly Circle Club (Washington, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0533
Abstract
A Washington, Iowa women's social club which was founded in 1934.
Dates:
1934-2011
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Gwendolyn Fowler papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0365
Abstract
The first African American woman pharmacist licensed in Iowa and presidential appointee to the United States Foreign Service in the 1950s.
Dates:
1905-1996
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Helen Lee Hensleigh Wenger papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0142
Abstract
University of Iowa graduate and teacher whose papers include correspondence and scrapbook files relating to her work on a variety of social issues including gun control.
Dates:
1922-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Iowa City Area Christian Women's Club records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0538
Abstract
The Iowa City Area Christian Women's Club holds Friendship Bible Coffees and monthly luncheons. The ICCW formed in 1967 as an offshoot of Stonecroft Ministries.
Dates:
1967-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Iowa City Women's Press records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0220
Abstract
Iowa City publisher and printer of lesbian and feminist books that existed from 1973 to 1985.
Dates:
1973-1985
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0565
Abstract
Nondenominational and nonpartisan organization bringing Iowa women's clubs together.
Dates:
1853-2006
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Irene Hoover papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0472
Abstract
Farmwoman, 4-H leader, and volunteer who was active in the Farm Bureau and the Master Farm Homemakers Guild.
Dates:
1923-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Josie Thurston papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0514
Abstract
Journalist who worked for the Des Moines Register between 1947 and 1957 and was later a freelance writer.
Dates:
1893-1990
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Joyce Beisswenger papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0823
Abstract
Social worker and civil rights activist from Osage, Iowa.
Dates:
1906-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Judy Klemesrud papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0094
Abstract
Nationally recognized journalist whose reporting included coverage of the women's movement.
Dates:
1939-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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